WORLD WAR II 1939-1945

OBJECTIVES Name four dictators who came to power before WWII. Identify the Allied powers and the Axis powers. Summarize why British and French appeasement and American isolationism failed to stop Fascist aggression. Describe the war in Europe and the war in Pacific. Define Holocaust and describe the result of the “Final Solution”. Identify political consequences of the Allied victory in postwar Europe.

CAUSES Treaty of Versailles Debts from WWI Global and local economic depression Growth of dictatorship Rise of militarism Germany’s invasion of Poland and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The four dictators Angered by political and economic problems, people in Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain turned to totalitarian leaders-Dictators. Franco, Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler

The War in Europe Before the official start of the war attack on Poland- Sep. 1st. 1939, Germany took Rhine land, Austria, and Sudeten Land in Czechoslovakia. Munich Conference-1938

Two Alliances and the war in Europe Allies-Britain, France, United States, and Soviet Union Axis-Italy, Germany and Japan

Axis powers in 1942

The End of the war in Europe Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones.

American victory in Pacific-1945 Atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan to end the war in Pacific. Nagasaki Hiroshima

The Holocaust Holocaust- The organized murder of all European Jews(Hitler’s “Final Solution”) Genocide-Complete extermination of one ethnic group

“Final Solution” The main orders were: Concentrate the Jews in ghettos in the big cities.(Warsaw ghetto) Send all German Jews to Poland.

Concentration Camps “Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used for forced labor. “ Joseph Goebbels, 1942 6 million Jews were killed in concentration camps. Auschwitz

Concentration Camps

Crematory Gas chambers

Effects Millions of deaths and widespread destruction in Europe and Asia The Holocaust U.S. emergence as a superpower